The Path to Automaticity with Addition Facts In recent years there has been a huge shift away from rote memorization of math facts and toward a strategy-based approach for learning math facts. There’s a big difference between memorizing and understanding. Sure, we want kiddos to have automaticity with their facts. Knowing math facts is similar to knowing sight words–it frees up the mind to solve real math problems. A great resource for strategy-based fact instruction is Mastering the Basic Math Facts in Addition and Subtraction: Strategies, Activities, and Interventions to Move Students Beyond Memorization. A big problem with teaching kids facts is that we often jump to the abstract (symbolic) level of instruction too fast. Learning facts begins in Kindergarten (or PreK) when students are exposed to dot patterns and five-frames. The concrete for the foundation sets (or doesn’t…) in first and second grade. Which finally brings me to today’s activity, which utilizes the Using Tens strategy.
Playdough Geometry: Exploring 2D & 3D Shapes | School Time Snippets I love making learning fun in our homeschool...I try anyways! In an effort to do that, I find myself online a lot looking for inspiration. My search led me to TeachersPayTeachers where I found some cute printable shapes cards. And I decided right then we had to use them! You just need a few materials and you are ready for some hands-on geometry exploring shapes for your preschooler or elementary aged student! post may contain affiliate links. Supplies: craft sticksplay doughshape cards Using play dough and craft sticks is a great hands-on way to explore geometry-- the study of shapes, lines, and patterns! Great for fine motor skills, too! Grab a tub or two of play dough and a stash of craft sticks {ours came from CraftProjectIdeas}. Start with one of the shape cards and manipulate the playdough to make several balls. Next add in the craft sticks and continue until your shape is made! I worked on some basic shapes with Little Sis-- the triangle, square, and rhombus. Pretty cool!
Primary Inspiration: Keep 'Em Buzzy Blog Hop! Hi, Teaching Friends! Whether you're a homeschooler, a parent trying to keep your child's skills active and growing, or a teacher at a year-round school, you know that teaching in the summer has some extra challenges. That's why we've gotten together to create the "Keep 'Em Buzzy" blog hop of summer learning activities! Keeping your little guys engaged in learning during the summer takes some creativity and ingenuity. To create this activity for number combinations, I wandered the aisles of a craft store looking for my inspiration. This felt flower measures about 12 inches across, and also comes in purple and in green. You'll also need dice and dominos for these games. Having your students sort out the dominos needed for each of these games is part of their learning, so be sure to let them do the "work" of finding the dominos they'll be using! If the player has no domino that totals the number, he misses that turn. This game could easily be adapted to other skills. Enjoy the games!
Kindergarten Shapes by Planning Playtime Kindergarten Shapes - 2D and 3D This is an awesome set of 12 Kindergarten Math Centers and 25 No Prep, Kindergarten shapes worksheets. They are are all about identifying, sorting, and composing with shapes. These games and worksheets work on skills like finding shapes in real objects, composing shapes from shapes, creating pictures with shapes, sorting 2D and 3D shapes, shape tracing, shape recognition and more. SAVE BIG $$$ WHEN YOU BUY THE FULL YEAR The full year set is a growing bundle. ALSO IN THIS SERIES:Kindergarten Math Unit 1: Number Sense 1-10 Kindergarten Math Unit 2: Number Sense 11-20 Kindergarten Math Unit 3: Counting to 100 by Tens and Ones Kindergarten Math Unit 4: Comparing Numbers Kindergarten Math Unit 5: Addition Kindergarten Math Unit 6: Subtraction Kindergarten Math Unit 7: Base 10 - Place Value Kindergarten Math Unit 8: Measurement and Data Kindergarten Math Unit 10: Money and Time The centers all come with printables. Thank you! Amy You might also like these products:
Cycle 2 : des situations pour construire les faits numériques - Bibliothèque Pédagogique de Royan page précédente | 1 | 2 | 3 | page suivante mardi 23 juin 2015 Situation pour le CE1 : le nombre-cible Objectif : calculer sur les dizaines entières Règle : Le 1er joueur doit tirer une carte-cible et la retourner. mardi 10 mars 2015 Situations pour construire des faits numériques au cycle 2 Après un rappel des faits numériques à construire en cycle 2, ce document présente des situations utilisables en classe. dimanche 8 mars 2015 Tableau de nombres - compléments à 10 Objectif : Mémorisation compléments à 10 Déroulement : Chaque enfant dispose d’une carte sur laquelle est tracé un tableau 3 x 3 avec un nombre par case. Fermez la boîte ! Objectif : Mémorisation compléments à 10 Déroulement : A tour de rôle, le joueur lance le dé. Le chemin des doubles Objectif : Mémorisation des doubles Déroulement : Toutes les cartes sont distribuées entre les joueurs. Problèmes dictés samedi 7 mars 2015 Dix vainc Les mariages des doubles Compléments à 10 - entraînement Dominos du 10
Se repérer sur une droite numérique Le 1er atelier est un jeu de pince simple sur les nombres de 0 à 99. Cartes à pince - droite numérique de 0 à 60 (Merci Floppye) Cartes à pince - droite numérique de 0 à 99 Rappel des règles du jeu de pince à linge : Ce jeu se joue individuellement. Le 2ème jeu n'est pas auto-correctif. Ils écrivent directement sur les fiches avec des crayons Woody Fiche d'exercices à plastifier (ou non) Correction réalisée par Sosom de Mon p'tit fouillis Il s'agit pour ce 3ème atelier de trouver le nombre qui doit aller dans les nuages. Atelier droite numérique de 100 à 999- Les nuages Atelier droite numérique de 1000 à 9999 (Merci à Pauline) N'oubliez pas de plier avant de plastifier... Vous trouverez dans ce dossier une quinzaine de pages d'exercices allant des nombres de 100 à 9999. C'est donc autant pour des ce1 que pour des ce2... Dossier d'exercices à plastifier (ou non) Correction réalisée par Sosom de Mon p'tit fouillis Ailleurs sur le net
January Jumpstart {A Day at School} - Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits Today I spent a few hours back in my classroom to make sure we are set for the new year! Ok, ok I needed to get into the building mostly because I ran out of the room in December with a red and green glitter trail behind me. Thankfully it wasn’t as bad as my back to school nightmares had lead me to believe! It may be the first time in a decade that I didn’t rearrange more than student desks. The good news is that I got through this monster stack of lamination last night and was able to get everything organized in the classroom today. As we head back, our first concept in math will be 2D shapes and then 3D shapes. More from my shapes resource. Our big idea cards all about shapes. Next I moved on to filling my new blue buckets. My buckets have 2D centers from my newest math unit, 2D and 3D Shapes. Here’s a peek inside. The first half of the week I am going to be really working on every student knowing the names and attributes of the shapes. A little peek into our expert tubs.
Math Centers For First Grade - Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits I don’t know about you, but my FAVORITE time of the day has always been math centers! I just love the ability to let students take charge of their place, pace, and product! This post is all about providing meaningful math centers for first grade! Because we spend 20+ days introducing our students to the guided math structure, the activities I want to provide during August and September are going to review skills that my beginning first graders were able to do in kindergarten. I want to lower my students’ anxiety levels while providing activities that excite and engage them to practice and apply important concepts that we will build upon in first grade. More on launching guided math HERE. Math Centers for August/September Take a peek at the beginning first grade skill levels that students can work on during their first month of math centers! Roll to fill the bus. Roll two dice and add the sum. Cube collector is all about collecting cubes as you move on the game board. Pack a lunch!
Shari Sloane - Educational Consultant Math Centers and Games (Click on any image to see a larger version of that image.) 10s Go Fish - This game is played just like "Go Fish." Instead of asking for a card to match your card, you have to ask for a card that would add with one of your cards to make a sum of 10. I introduced the game with out class 4th Grade buddies, but it was still really difficult. Click here for the 10s Go Fish Cheat Sheet. Shape Fill In - This is the perfect game to differentiate your instruction. Click here for the Shape Fill-in Star. Click here for the Shape Fill-in Heart. Shake and Share - To play this game, you need to make Casino bottles. Click here for the Shake and Share Addition PDF. Click here for the Shake and Share Subtraction PDF. One More - To play this game each, 2 children will share a sheet and a die. Click here for the One More PDF. More or Less? Click here for the More or Less PDF. Count and Color - This is a very simple center. Click here for the Count and Color PDF. Click here for the Bump PDF.
Ice Tray Addition Activity for Kindergarten - Planning Playtime Have you been looking for a fun Addition Activity for Kindergarten age kids? We have a great one for you today using a simple ice tray. This awesome math activity is fine motor skills and math all wrapped together in one awesome game. Children are often introduced to addition in kindergarten. They learn to add numbers under 10 together first. Then, they can start going up to larger, 2 digit numbers and beyond. During those first few months of addition, kids may still be getting use to one-to-one correspondence, or attaching a number to each additional object. *This post may contain affiliate links. This activity is also very visual. One of my favorite things about this activity is that it is so interactive. Here’s how we set up the activity. Supplies: Ice Cube TrayPom Pom BallsTongs (These are basically the cutest thing ever!!) To Play: Give the children an ice cube tray, a bowl or bag of pom pom balls, the tongs, and 2 dice. Next they add the two numbers together. To Make it Harder:
How to Set Up the Math Center in an Early Childhood Classroom - Pocket of Preschool Little learners need many opportunities to explore, manipulate, represent, and learn various math concepts and skills. The math center is the perfect place for that when you intentionally plan and set up a math center rich in materials that promote mathematical exploration. Remember research tells us that students need concrete, hands on activities, and the opportunity to manipulate materials to develop math skills and concepts. Just so you know, in my classroom I combine my math and science centers together aka the Discovery Center. Let's talk organization first. There are some math materials that every classroom should have. Some math manipulatives that every classroom should have are linking cubes, counters, linking chains, pattern blocks, dominoes, geoboards, bingo chips, number manipulatives, scale, measuring spoons/cups, dice, math playing cards, ten frames, ice cube trays, and fun manipulatives (buttons, etc.). Food is a fun and yummy manipulative! That was a long one!
Kindergarten Addition Activity - Planning Playtime I have a fun new Kindergarten Addition Activity for you today, and it takes no prep time. If you have two simple tools in your classroom, you have an instant math center that the kids will love. The best educational tools, toys, and games are the ones that can be used over and over again for different activities. This Kindergarten Addition activity uses both. *This post may contain affiliate links. To do this activity, you will need: Our favorite Colored Dot Dominoes Snap Cubes with coordinating colors. To do the activity, have the children pull a domino out of the pile. If you want the children to record their answers, you could easily do that on a lined sheet of paper. This activity is very visual, and require the children to count multiple times before actually adding the numbers together. Thank you for stopping by to check out this fun Kindergarten Addition activity.
Jeu de calcul mental : dés à dés Voici un petit jeu de calcul mental qui se joue à deux et avec des dés. Le but est de réaliser une équation (suite d'opérations) pour obtenir un nombre cible. Chacun joue à son tour et place un dé sur le plateau. Lorsqu'un joueur a obtenu la suite d'opérations lui permettant d'obtenir le nombre-cible, il énonce sa suite. Voici la règle complète : Voici le plateau de jeu. Voici les cartes-cibles ( il y a deux cartes sans nombre pour créer d'autres nombres-cibles) : voici les jetons-point : Et voici deux petites ardoises ( utiliser avec les crayons o'color ou toute autre marque pour feuille plastifiée). Voici un exemple de partie : Ici, le nombre-cible est 47. Voici une version en 3x3 avec 4 dés. Dans la partie ci-dessous, le joueur aux dés bleus gagne. Je cogite un plateau pour 4 joueurs... à suivre ... Le jeu 4 x 4 : jeu_dés à dés Le jeu 3 x 3 : jeu_dés à dés_avec_4_dés Les pions : jeu_dés_à_dés_pions
How To Teach 3D Shape in the Early Years | you clever monkey Hands-on ideas and printables for teaching young children 3D shapes. Much of what I wrote then is still true today in schools. Young children need repeated hands-on play with different 3D shapes to understand them and they need clear, accurate information from their teachers to avoid the confusion between surface or two dimensional shapes and three-dimensional shapes that exists in many young children. This post contains affiliate links. It provides many ideas for activities that can help support a young child's growing understanding of shape. At the start of teaching 3D shape, we always go through the different language used to describe 3D shapes vs 2D shape. This simple paper foldable from Hooty's Homeroom is a good hands-on finish to your first lesson. The Australian Curriculum tells us students in their first year at school should be able to 'sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment.' 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.